Gary Hart Weighs in on Hillary

The Huffington Post is sporting a nice little blog entry by Gary Hart—check it out here: Breaking the Final Rule.

It’s interesting reading the perspective of someone in the system characterize Hillary as being too power hungry for our good. It makes a lot of sense: this is a mighty close race, and in the event that Obama gets the nomination, where does that leave the Dems? McCain and his crew will tear apart whoever is nominated—that you can be sure of. And the Democratic nominee will go after McCain. That’s how it works.

But to have these types of attacks within a party—especially when Obama is narrowly leading the delegate count—is dirty boxing. It’s worse than that. As Hart says, it’s an all-or-nothing tactic, and if Hillary doesn’t win the nomination guess who gets the “nothing”.

Hillary aired an ad that questioned Obama’s ability to govern, invoking fear that When Bad Things Happen It Better Be Her Answering The Phone. Obama’s response to the ad is elegant and well said (as usual). His argument is rooted in the fact that he spoke against the Iraq invasion—something that’s turned out to be the type of call Hillary is proposing will happen at 3am.

You can see the ad and Obama’s response below.

Hillary’s “Red Phone” Ad

Obama’s Response

Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, video

This entry was posted on Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 5:44 pm and is filed under Politics.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.